Emerging Mythology - Q&A

In this question and answer session after a lecture, Campbell talks about the four functions of mythology and gives an answer to the question, "Do you see the emergence of a world mythology?".
This Q&A session is unreleased footage from lectures featured in the Mythos series.
For more on Mythos follow the link below;
jcf.org/titles/mythos/
During the final years of his life, Joseph Campbell embarked on a speaking tour in which he drew together all that he had learned about what he called the “one great story” of humanity. This session was part of that tour.

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  • @J0hnC0ltrane
    @J0hnC0ltrane3 сағат бұрын

    I'm always impressed with how Joseph Campbell represents the world's global structure and sociological view. Sociology in university never did this.

  • @seabedpebbles
    @seabedpebbles Жыл бұрын

    Just pure love and genius. Love Joseph Campbell.

  • @susiefairfield7218
    @susiefairfield7218 Жыл бұрын

    People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense - Terry Pratchett

  • @seabedpebbles

    @seabedpebbles

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Wyattbeaty truly!!! We arrive at the story, we don't make them, they make us.

  • @prplpotatoes
    @prplpotatoes6 ай бұрын

    This talk helps to explain the trouble of new age religion, which often feels like a bunch of global citizens who have lost their original 'society' and are cherry picking from an torn-open world of myth to conjure up ritual and meaning. It is a devastating situation for everyone seeking spiritual guidance or not. It makes me ponder of the potential of new myth for a global culture. What does that look like...? 🤔 Love Joseph Campbell and this group of thinkers!

  • @cosmoscripts2422
    @cosmoscripts2422 Жыл бұрын

    To be able to describe the essence of mythology with such succinct clarity only goes to show Joseph Campbell's incredible insights into its truths. He respected and honored the wisdom within the mythical metaphor and his words are a gift to the world, much needed today.

  • @cosmoscripts2422

    @cosmoscripts2422

    11 ай бұрын

    @@lisasmith3657 It seems to be a metaphorical theme in ancient tales of those who possess fame and fortune to have to forsake their earthly riches, if not physically then mentally, on the humbling path of awakening to Spirit. These formidable cultural kings and queens become powerless when faced with the challenge of death in some form after encountering the story’s archetypal Sage of spiritual wisdom. Even the formidable Indian God Indra was powerless when it came to a Sage’s curse on him for not being humble. With the only choice being to surrender into the unknown darkness, like Innana’s, transformation is possible towards the truth of timeless Spirit as being the fundamental source of existence. Western minds are evolving - lots of shedding of calcified barnacles to go. 😊Namaste 🙏

  • @cosmoscripts2422

    @cosmoscripts2422

    11 ай бұрын

    @@lisasmith3657 Yes, the ‘heart’ is where it all comes together - Anahata Chakra. In the ancient wisdom of Jyotish or Vedic Astrology (not Western), Venus retro indicates revisiting the give-and-take of relationships - btw Anahita Rao did a superb You Tube synopsis of Venus retro from Leo to Cancer around 3 weeks ago. I would think Saturn is the best scraper of karmic barnacles, magnified with some impetuous Rahu, Jyotish-speaking that is.😊

  • @CadeCYC
    @CadeCYC Жыл бұрын

    Four minutes of the wisdom of our Nature, Earth, society & experience just like that! WOW😮

  • @miglena2s
    @miglena2s Жыл бұрын

    In a Journey and in the Field: The push of separation vs. the Pull towards Unity...

  • @joedavis4150
    @joedavis4150 Жыл бұрын

    .. Albert Einstein said, that the deeper he got into science, the more he became aware of God.

  • @Paine137

    @Paine137

    7 ай бұрын

    Read his letter from 1954. His views on religion were greatly exaggerated.

  • @michaelmiller8920
    @michaelmiller8920 Жыл бұрын

    A very, very old Chinese observation is,” if we are able to name something,anything we posses that something/anything. This allows us to own our understanding of the miracle existence. Otherwise we would go completely mad.

  • @truenemesisprime550
    @truenemesisprime550 Жыл бұрын

    Where is the full version of this seminar please?

  • @robincrowflies

    @robincrowflies

    Жыл бұрын

    Back in the early 90s I took a class in college, called Transformations of Myth Through Time--I still have the textbook and workbook that went with it, but we watched the lectures on PBS. This looks like it may be from that series. (?)

  • @truenemesisprime550

    @truenemesisprime550

    Жыл бұрын

    @G G Thats the power of myth, it's different, thats an interview this is a lecture.

  • @Nickname-ln9iw
    @Nickname-ln9iw Жыл бұрын

    Chapter Phoenix Fire, the alchemical process to introduce a new cosmology.... we're in it right now!

  • @susiefairfield7218

    @susiefairfield7218

    Жыл бұрын

    Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before. Joseph Campbell

  • @Psy0psAgent
    @Psy0psAgent Жыл бұрын

    I'm working on it.

  • @joedavis4150
    @joedavis4150 Жыл бұрын

    .. Stewart brand, The Man Behind the whole earth catalog, said that science is the only news.

  • @joedavis4150

    @joedavis4150

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Wyattbeaty .. don't Bow Down to anyone, but listen to everybody. But don't listen for very long, if they don't have anything to say!.. have you heard about the expanded 80/20 rule? Everybody and everything is 20% wrong. Not engraved in stone, merely one way of looking at things.

  • @sydneylanestudios6041
    @sydneylanestudios6041 Жыл бұрын

    The mission of the world today is to rewrite the mythologies

  • @JD37

    @JD37

    Жыл бұрын

    The mission of the world today is to make us all forget the past.

  • @susiefairfield7218

    @susiefairfield7218

    Жыл бұрын

    If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become part of someone elses story.’ ‘And what if your story doesn’t work?’ ‘You keep changing it until you find one that does.' - Terry Pratchett

  • @grahamluna6935

    @grahamluna6935

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JD37 The mission of the world economic forum perpetrators wants us to forget our past. Let's be clear

  • @sydneylanestudios6041

    @sydneylanestudios6041

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Wyattbeaty The Rich have a mythology, it's called "Greed is Good". Don't have to look very far to understand the religion of the rich. All of the get rich books and philosophies of the richest in the world all say the same thing: "Be the best, dominate, being selfish is actually virtuous." I am not judging this, I am simply saying it is a story. A way of living. A narrative that an ego has placed itself in. If the mythology of our world was that we were all brothers and to love one another as ourselves (as this is truly the case, we are one life together) then if we truly embodied this story/myth, it would mean feeding our family: eg. the children. It would mean no need for bombs because we know that all wars are civil wars. It is our shared story and mythology that trickles down into all of our values, which trickles down into our decision making in the world. Careful about the assumptions you make, the Joseph Campbell is passing on something even more valuable than feeding the starving children, it is a look into the psychology of who we are so that we may have a chance to truly design a mythology/society that does not let those things happen in the long run. So we should absolutely care about the mythologies we subscribe to because if we don't decide for ourselves what they are then it will be decided for us and it will have irreversible effects on all of the generations to come.

  • @KathleenBeaty

    @KathleenBeaty

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sydneylanestudios6041 “Joseph Campbell is passing on something even more valuable than feeding the starving children”. Wow, that’s a scary and ugly statement my friend. Please leave me be and keep your seemingly highly important mythologies away from me, if that’s the kind of bizarre and perhaps crystallized world view and attitude it leads to. Nothing is more important than feeding the starving, clothing the naked and housing the homeless. They are not fed because of worldwide greed, that is a fact and you don’t seem to care a whole lot, which is ugly and sick. Wake up to their living pain, it’s now, it’s real, it’s ongoing and it needs to stop. Thank you for your interesting advice and boldly telling me to be careful with my assumptions but please learn to feel the living and real pain in the bellies of those who starve, it’s horrible and Godless to live and die that way. You talk of stories; I speak of horrible facts facing us all. You speak of some kind of dream land that you seem to actually believe, where there are more important things than feeding the starving children. That’s completely insane. They are dying now as you and I type and yet you say it’s not of the utmost importance. I don’t have money to help them but many others like the Joseph Campbell foundation do, that’s the fact we all face. You scare and shock me very much. Please, spare me, my friend. The devil speaks through you when you say that Joseph Campbell is passing on something even more valuable than feeding the starving children. God bless you and please leave me be.

  • @isacvlad
    @isacvlad Жыл бұрын

    🙏

  • @RadioactiveDoggy
    @RadioactiveDoggy Жыл бұрын

    Is there a transcript of this?

  • @joedavis4150
    @joedavis4150 Жыл бұрын

    .. :-).. go listen to the song, Gasolina, by Daddy Yankee.

  • @johnnyraybartoshevich3073
    @johnnyraybartoshevich30734 ай бұрын

    1986 twas 2b 2024 February 12😮 johb121

  • @Wyattbeaty
    @Wyattbeaty Жыл бұрын

    "Matthew 11:25, NIV: At that time Jesus said, 'I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children."